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Ext. Hdd Precautions

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kayboykb

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Jul 2, 2003
Bonjour :santa2: .. Quick question here. I noticed my Ext. Hdd had extremely slow transfer rates, so I did some snooping and saw that even though I had SP3, my computer still didn't have USB 2.0.

I basically had to find the VIA 2.0 drivers and manually install them.

Ever since then though, my HDD has been acting strange. Sometimes it'll disappear from My computer and I'll have to power it off and back on to get it to show back up, and one of my Folders just disappeared (only happened once). When I'm using BitTorrent and download to my HDD it will constantly stop, saying there's an I/O Device error. I have to download to the desktop and transfer to the hard drive.

Also right after I switched to 2.0 it said the recycle bin in it was corrupted.

Any ideas on what's happening? I'd hate for this to be some warning signs for my HDD <----- Seagate FreeAgent 250 GB.
 
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